TextTrackList: removetrack event

Baseline
Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since October 2018.

The removetrack event is fired when a track is removed from a TextTrackList.

Syntax

Use the event name in addEventListener():

js
addEventListener("removetrack", (event) => { })

Alternatively, assign to the event handler property of the interface:

js
onremovetrack = (event) => { }

Event type

A TrackEvent. Inherits from Event.

Event TrackEvent

Examples

Using addEventListener():

js
const mediaElement = document.querySelector("video, audio");

mediaElement.textTracks.addEventListener("removetrack", (event) => {
  console.log(`Text track: ${event.track.label} removed`);
});

Using the onremovetrack event handler property (but note that this replaces other event listeners added using onremovetrack, if any):

js
const mediaElement = document.querySelector("video, audio");

mediaElement.textTracks.onremovetrack = (event) => {
  console.log(`Text track: ${event.track.label} removed`);
};

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# event-media-removetrack
HTML
# handler-tracklist-onremovetrack

Browser compatibility

See also